This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...where hospitality to travellers is the rule, and where little is asked or expected, beyond, perhaps, a few beads, a strip of cloth, or a bit of common metal for the most sumptuous feast which the head-man of the village can produce. Not unfrequently the valleys were so deeply flooded that the men were up to their chins ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...where hospitality to travellers is the rule, and where little is asked or expected, beyond, perhaps, a few beads, a strip of cloth, or a bit of common metal for the most sumptuous feast which the head-man of the village can produce. Not unfrequently the valleys were so deeply flooded that the men were up to their chins in crossing them, and, sometimes, on the bridges the water was breasthigh; holding on by the tails of the oxen the travellers would make their way across as best they could. On one occasion, Livingstone lost his hold of the belt by which his blanket was fastened to the ox which he Fever-Stricken Again. rode, and had to strike out for the opposite bank. The Makalolo, who did not know he could swim, were greatly alarmed for his safety, and about twenty of them dashed in to the rescue, leaving their loose articles of apparel to float down the stream. Their joy at his escape from this danger was unmistakeable, and the Missionary was gratified and cheered by this proof of their devotion. After this, when the natives had tried to frighten them by telling them of the depth of the rivers they had to cross, they would laugh and say, --"We can all swim; who carried the white man across but himself?" Day by day, week by week, month by month, the disheartened party plod on, wearily, drearily, through the morass, and the river bed, and the tangled forest, oftentimes with the tall grasses two feet above the heads of those who ride the oxen, on whom the moisture, with which these grasses are laden, falls as from a shower bath. Now hot and parched with the burning fever, with the blood flowing like liquid fire through the veins; now faint and trembling, with the dreadful chill, which precedes it; with the clammy perspiration breaking out all over th...
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